The daughter's return African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history

Rody, Caroline 1960- (Author).

Summary: This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's "Beloved" , Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", and Maryse Conde's "I, Tituba", "magical" black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter-plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.

Record details

ISBN: 1429403977 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781429403979
ISBN: 0195138880 (Cloth)
ISBN: 9780195138887
ISBN: 1280531045
ISBN: 9781280531040
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (x, 267 p.)
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-258) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.